How to properly escape weird characters in paths to have a valid filelist?

[Miro Hrončok]

On 29. 06. 21 13:32, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> However, I have trouble figuring out how to properly escape a path like this:
> 
> /usr/share/data/filename with spaces and "quotes" in it
> 
> I've tried the following options with no luck:
> 
> '/usr/share/data/filename with spaces and "quotes" in it'
> "/usr/share/data/filename with spaces and \"quotes\" in it"
> "/usr/share/data/filename with spaces and \\"quotes\\" in it"
> "/usr/share/data/filename with spaces and \\\"quotes\\\" in it"

After reading the code of the strtokWithQuotes function:

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/blob/rpm-4.17.0-beta1/build/files.c#L241

I have the impression that this is currently impossible.

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